Chapter 289 Negligent Xiao Wu
After Darles returned to the City Lord's Mansion, he did not immediately go to the study in the backyard. Instead, he held a small dinner party and invited all the nobles in the city to come to dine and discuss the issue of soul crystals buried under the roads in the city.
However, the local nobles in Luoxing City knew little about this. They only knew that successive city lords had begun planning the roads and distribution of buildings in the city more than two hundred years ago.
After learning that all the city lords had died of illness, Darles's expression suddenly changed. He ended the dinner early and rushed to the study in the backyard in a hurry.
Seeing the bookshelves separated, Darles thought that the other party had gone out temporarily and forgot to close the entrance to the secret passage. While he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he also secretly cursed the other party for being careless and hesitated whether to go down and investigate.
Now he suspected that he had been kept in the dark by Hu Fangyuan. They were not using each other at all, but he was being used unilaterally by the other party!
Once the other party gets the desired result, they will try to make themselves "die of illness" in order to keep the secret.
But Hu Fangyuan is a fallen person. If he really confronts him face to face, Darles is not sure whether he can survive.
Not to mention, the other party is a Soul Sect!
In the end, Dales turned on the soul guide lamp on the desk, closed the open bookshelf, and prepared to wait here for Hu Fangyuan to come back and conduct some tests.
But they waited until dark, and the patrol personnel in the city came to report: "Lord City Lord, people are digging roads in various parts of the city, and many of them have dug out soul sand and soul crystals!"
“Huh?” Darles raised his head sharply and cursed, “Those fools are so greedy and ignorant. They destroyed the roads in the city just to get some soul crystals. They are so bold! Arrest them all!”
"My Lord City Lord, those fools are extremely despicable. At the slightest sign of trouble, they just run away dragging their tools. Moreover, there are people digging on every street in the city. There are only 500 soldiers in the city. If we mobilize all of them, it may be an exaggeration. Moreover, many of them are related to the common people in the city..." The visitor was a little worried.
"What's the big deal? They are clearly stealing the wealth of our Falling Star City! It's a serious crime! Anyone who dares to shield them will be punished!"
Darius yelled.
Why are soul crystals and soul sand buried underground?
He didn't know, but it was definitely related to Hu Fangyuan. He had to get to the bottom of it. How could he have been poached by someone?
The Seven Treasures Glazed Sect...
Not to be offended.
But how dare the ignorant people in the city bully him?
It's exactly the opposite!
However, when his subordinate was about to do it, Darles suddenly stopped him and said, "Wait, this matter is indeed not suitable for mobilizing a large number of people. Let's catch a few criminals tomorrow and chop them up in the street to serve as a warning to others. And let those who stole the soul crystals in the city return them obediently, not a single one can be lost."
"But what if they are still hiding it?"
"Then keep killing."
Darles said coldly, "What we have the most in Falling Star City is fools. If you kill more than 20 people, they will be scared and will send the soul crystals back obediently! I will reward them then, and it will show that I am fair in rewarding and punishing!"
"The city lord is wise!"
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at the same time.
Since the gate outside Luoxing City was closed, Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu could only walk around the outer wall, and finally found a dog hole and crawled in.
"We actually crawled through a dog hole! What bad luck!" Xiao Wu was the last one to crawl out of the dog hole. She brushed off the dust on her body and cursed.
"Isn't your martial spirit the Soft Bone Rabbit? Don't Soft Bone Rabbits live in burrows? It's normal for them to burrow." Zhou Qing also patted the dust in front of and behind him. He said this, but he was complaining in his heart:
[As a transformed soft-bone rabbit, shouldn't digging holes evoke your childhood memories? ]
"Normal, you big-headed ghost!" Xiao Wu rolled her eyes. The Soft Bone Rabbit did live in caves dug underground, but after she transformed, she preferred more spacious places and hated narrow and cramped caves and passages.
"A real man can bend and stretch." Tang San, who also got out of the dog hole, looked a little ugly, but he still found a reasonable excuse for himself.
Zhou Qing smiled, cleaned the dust off his body, and walked along the narrow corridor between the houses in front of him to the dim street.
As far as the eye can see, the lights in the houses on both sides of the street have been turned off, but there are intermittent slight knocking sounds coming from both sides, and flickering lights of fire appearing.
Following the sound and the light of the fire, the three men saw three or five men digging a road. They dug up the blue bricks on the ground and piled sand and soil randomly on the side of the road. When they were tired, they wiped the sweat from their foreheads. When they were thirsty, they picked up the water bags hanging around their waists and took a sip.
The woman next to her was holding a bag filled with soul sand. When it was full, she carried it on her shoulders, not minding the weight at all, and ran towards a nearby path.
When a man saw Zhou Qing, he immediately stopped what he was doing. Seeing their young faces, he breathed a sigh of relief, but then he blamed a capable man standing outside: "I asked you to keep watch, why did you let anyone get close?"
"Big brother..."
"Forget it, luckily it's just a child, just ignore it. Be more careful next time! If we are discovered by the patrol soldiers in the city, even if I have a brother-in-law who is a soldier, if we are caught, we will have to go to jail!"
The man did not scold the person who let out the news. He just looked at what Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu were wearing and said, "Kids, your parents are also digging a road. The noise must have woken you up, right? Go back and tell them not to dig on the road in front of their house."
"Thanks, we're just curious and came over to check it out." After Zhou Qing said this, he called Tang San and Xiao Wu to pass them and continue walking forward.
"A strange kid." The man didn't think much about it and just told his brothers to continue digging.
"Brother, are these soul sands valuable?"
"Is that so? I have inquired about it. One gold soul coin is worth one pound. It is said to be used to make ink, which is used for writing by dignitaries."
"We are not lucky enough to have the treasures buried by the successive city lords of Luoxing City. We might as well dig more soul sand. If we miss this opportunity, we will never have it again!"
There were many such exchanges along the way.
Tang San said: "According to this trend, it is estimated that within three days, the residents of the entire city will take action, digging the roads in the city beyond recognition, and digging out most of the soul sand and soul crystals underground, thus completely destroying the soul guide core formation in this city."
"We can only destroy part of it. After all, the 'ravines' between the houses still exist. The aura of Falling Star City will still have a negligible effect under the influence of the characteristic wind direction and wind speed."
Zhou Qing shook his head slightly. "Besides, the people in the city were making quite a commotion, but Darles didn't act immediately. I'm afraid he wants to make plans tomorrow."
Xiao Wu asked, "By the way, when I came down, the hole above was not closed. Would Darles have discovered the incident below because of this?"
Zhou Qing: "???"
"Forget it. We have closed the other side of the passage anyway. According to Hu Fangyuan's diary, Darles didn't know that there was another secret passage leading to the outside of the city. It doesn't matter."
(End of this chapter)
